Renegade music-maker Celyn of Gwent invites you to the official launch of their debut single: RESURRECTION live at The Divine!
Celyn will perform a new set of original songs and sonic experimentation, with live AV projection.
RESURRECTION is a song about rebirth, about the world as we know it falling apart, about what can be made from the the ashes of the past, about desolation, about revolution.
Special Guest Performance by artist and dancer SOPHIE BRAIN
DJ set from sonic maestro, HELEN NOIR.
Celyn's show will culminate in a performance of RESURRECTION alongside the premiere of the music video - filmed, directed and edited by Marieke Macklon.
SOPHIE BRAIN'S PERFORMANCE
‘Avoid the folk...who see the blood but not the energy form’
Taking cues from Diane diPrima’s Revolutionary Letters, Sophie’s performance challenges the body’s extremes to explore world building action and possibilities in an era of powerlessness.
Combining movement and character based performance, the figures Sophie creates unleash female ‘hysteria’ through dirty and despicable acts.
We gather together as one, to witness a RESURRECTION.
Doors 7pm
Celyn of Gwent
A queer bard for the anthropocene age, Celyn of Gwent is an artist creating between popular music and the sonic avant-garde.
Celyn’s music integrates influences from electronica and the traditional music of the British Isles. Amongst their songs, they weave spoken word poetry and field recordings.
Celyn of Gwent’s debut album ‘Dying & Rising’ is due for release Autumn 2025. Supported by Help Musicians.
Sophie Brain
Sophie is a dancer and performance artist whose work exists primarily in nightlife spaces. She is part of performance collective Sue Veneers and has performed at festivals including Glastonbury, Gala and Milkshake.
She also has a regular slot in The Box Soho’s late night cabaret show.
Taking inspiration from her dance training background and her experience as a drag performer in queer London, Sophie’s work is layered with a camp sensibility and ruptures with pleasure found in the dirty punk material body, which lies at the heart of her work.
Helen Noir
Helen Noir is a London-based soprano, composer, orchestrator, producer and mixer working in film, theatre and music. Adept at multiple genres, but particularly known for her unique and detailed collage pieces using layered vocals and manipulated sounds, she has composed soundtracks for many films and theatre projects and been commissioned by the BFI, and Arcola and Hampstead theatres amongst numerous others. Helen is resident composer/sound designer of The AIDS Plays Project, and is a longtime member of cult performance art group, Theo Adams Company. She is also a professor of electronic and produced music at Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Access
Sadly, The Divine is currently not fully accessible.
The cabaret and club space are in the basement of the venue. There
are 17 wide steps with slip resistant treads down to the space with
sturdy handrails either side.
The toilets are in the basement and are not accessible for wheelchair
users.
If you need further information, please refer to The Divine ‘About’
page on the website. www.thedivine.co.uk